Immigration Minister Jason Kenney: Bhutanese Refugees

Canada Dept: A large-scale refugee resettlement is not a desirable option. It just further complicates things, he said of the situation in Syria, according to Calgary Herald. Syrian Canadians and the NDP have demanded Canada do more to assist Syrian refugees, but Kenney has maintained doing so is premature. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, he argues, has declared humanitarian aid the priority and is still hoping for a political solution to the bloody civil war that has now displaced one million people and OTTAWA Canada is making contingency plans to resettle Syrian refugees should it be asked to do so by the United Nations, Immigration Minister Jason Kenney said Wednesday after announcing it will take in an additional 1,000 Bhutanese refugees from Nepal with ties to Canada over the next two years. Having said that, we are meeting with our officials and . . . we are monitoring the situation very closely . . . We are thinking forward in case at some point, the UN does come to us and other countries to ask us to participate in resettlement. We re already making contingency plans for that. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.